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Putin's intention in the war was to keep NATO, meaning the United States, off of Russia's border. In 1994, President Clinton signed off on NATO enlargement to the East, including Ukraine and Georgia. Russia was unhappy with the enlargement, especially with the Baltic states, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, and Slovakia in 2004. In 2008, the US pushed for NATO enlargement to Ukraine and Georgia.
In 2010, the US put Aegis missile systems in Poland and Romania. Also in 2010, Viktor Yanukovych was elected in Ukraine on a platform of neutrality. In 2014, the US worked to overthrow Yanukovych, as evidenced by a phone call involving Victoria Newland and the US Ambassador. The Minsk agreement, calling for autonomy for Russian-speaking regions, was not enforced by the US and Ukraine. In January 2022, Blinken told Lavrov that the US reserves the right to put missile systems wherever it wants.
The war's initial intention was to force Zelensky to negotiate neutrality, which nearly happened, but Ukraine walked away, allegedly due to US influence. The US senators view the conflict as a proxy war where no Americans are dying.
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Speaker 0: What was Putin's intention in the war? Not the propaganda that's written about this. Oh, that they failed, and he was gonna take over Ukraine. The idea was to keep NATO, and what is NATO? It's The United States, off of Russia's border.
No more, no less. When the Soviet Union ended in 1990 United States decided there would be no end to eastward enlargement of NATO. And the decision was taken formally in 1994 when president Clinton signed off on NATO enlargement to the East, all the way to Ukraine and into Georgia. So the NATO enlargement, as you know, started in 1999 with Hungary, Poland, and The Czech Republic, and Russia was extremely unhappy about it. But these were countries still far from the border.
So the next round of NATO enlargement came in 02/2004 with the three Baltic states, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, and Slovakia. At this point, Russia was pretty damn upset. So as everybody recalls, in 02/2007, President Putin said, stop. Enough. And, of course, what that meant was in 02/2008, the United States jammed down Europe's throat enlargement of NATO to Ukraine and to Georgia.
This is right up against Russia. And Russia protested because if Russia decided to have a military base on the Rio Grande or Canadian border, not only would The United States freak out, we'd have war within about ten minutes. And a month later, war broke out. That gets Georgia destroyed. And starting in 02/2010, the US put in Aegis missile systems in Poland and then in Romania.
And Russia doesn't like that. In 02/2010, Viktor Yanukovych was elected on the platform of neutrality. Russia had no territorial interests or designs designs in Ukraine at all. What Russia was negotiating was a twenty five year lease for Sevastopol naval base. That's it.
Not for Crimea, not for the Donbas, nothing. In 02/2014, the US worked actively to overthrow Yanukovych. Everybody knows the phone call by my Columbia University colleague, Victoria Newland, and The US Ambassador, Peter Piatt. Listen to it. It's fascinating.
Speaker 1: I don't think cleats should go into the government. I don't think it's necessary. I don't think it's a good idea. I think Yatz is the guy who's got the economic experience, the governing experience, and, you know, fuck the EU.
Speaker 0: No. Exactly. And I think we've gotta do something to make You don't get better evidence. Then came Minsk and especially Minsk too. It said there should be autonomy for the Russian speaking regions in the East Of Ukraine.
It was supported unanimously by the UN Security Council. The United States and Ukraine decided it was not to be enforced. There were many thousands of deaths in the shelling by Ukraine in the Donbas. And one of the issues on the table in December 2021, January '20 '20 '2 was does The United States claim the right to put missile systems in Ukraine? And Blinken told Lavrov in January 2022, the United States reserves the right to put missile systems wherever it wants.
So the war started. What was Putin's intention in the war? It was to force Zelensky to negotiate. Neutrality. And that happened within seven days of the start of the invasion.
Ukraine walked away unilaterally from a near agreement. Why? Because United States told them to. The idea was that there would be Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Georgia that would deprive Russia of any international status status by blocking the Black Sea. And the American senators who are as nasty and cynical and corrupt as imaginable say this is wonderful expenditure of our money because no Americans are dying.
It's the pure proxy war. And since The US talked the negotiators away from the table, about a million Ukrainians have died or been severely